Re: OT: performance problems.
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:52, martin f krafft wrote:
> folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and
> i'd love some advise from you wise people!
>
> i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb
> swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful,
> isn't it?
>
> Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
> 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70
> 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle
> Mem: 505844K total, 502788K used, 3056K free, 11456K buffers
> Swap: 996020K total, 31172K used, 964848K free, 438552K cached
>
> however, i am continuously having troubles. for instance, in a typical
> situation, i'd have windowmaker running with four terms, xmms playing
> some 192kbps MP3s, some ssh sessions into it, and an rsync, bzip/gzip,
> or make-kpkg process running. i am not usually interactively using X.
>
> in such a situation, xmms (or mpg123 without X, it doesn't matter)
> continuously skips on MP3s and it's *very* annoying. i even went as far
> as to renice xmms to -20 *and* rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it
> doesn't really help.
>
> this is ridiculous. a 1.3 GHz machine should really be able to handle
> two intense processes at the same time, after all, UNIX is a true
> time-sharing OS. but i am at a loss why this thing is unable to handle
> two processes.
only thing I can think of is to try xmms without the cpu hogging stuff
to make sure that it is the cpu causing the skips and not a slow
internet connection.
I dont enough about how all the stuff works in linux but it may also be
that it isn't xmms that is skipping but the internet connection is
somehow being interrupted by the cpu-intensive tasks. just a thought.
Regards,
Shri
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